Private Acts in Public Places

Liberalization of divorce rules was sometimes frustrated by the religious beliefs of individual lawmakers and by legislative malapportionment. Conservative opposition was often strengthened by the politicians' reluctance to take bold public stands on divorce even as they quietly acceded to the pleas of individual constituents for relief from marital predicaments.

• Author: Richard H. Chused
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Published: 1994-06-29
• Pages: 243